8 Babylon 1s ſuddenly * fallen and deſtroyed x: + 1... on howltor her, * take balm for her pain, if ſo be ſhe Rev. 141, and Iv; Pros
n Thar is, ſhe ſhall ſuddenly fall and be deſtroyed ; you may © Clap. iy try all the probable ways tor her Cure, but they will all be uled 46+ 1%
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EO 11 * Make Þ bright the arrowsr, gather the bogs ; ſhic:ds /, the LORD hath * raiſed up the ſpirit of the king of the Medes 7, for his device zs againſt Ba- *
bylon to deſtroy it, becauſe it zs the * vengeance of 17. |
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make the watch ſtrong,fet up the watchmen, prepare + Hev. the | ambuſh w; for the LORD hath both deyj-liers i
10 TheL OR D hath broug't forth our righte- * Chap, 2 .* ouſneſs; come and ler * us declare in Zion the work go. 2$.
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NO mon meaſure of height and depth. The word by us tranſlated | covetouſnels, as Exod. 18. 21, may eltier fignifie Riches the ob- ject of their covetoulnels, or prolperity, or chat unlawtul defire of having more, which is properly called Covetorſre(s , ether be- cauſe they ſhould be deſtroyed utterly, or becaule they ſhould proſper no more, there wasno end put to the Babylonians Lults, -1t there was an end put to the ſatistaQion of their Luſts.
14 The LORD of hoſts hath ſworn by + himſelf, 2 Surely 1 will fill thee with men, as with ca- and they ſhall -| lift upa ſhout againſk
ſayins, rerpillars vb 3 thee c. : ; ;
4 The Lord that is able to bring to paſs what he ſaith, hath {-orn by his Life, or by himlelt, fee the like phraſe Chap. 22.5. and 44+ 26. and 49. 13 - Amos 4.2. and 6.8. Iſz. 45.23. that 1s the thing next mentioned ſhall come to pals as certain as that taere © 1 God in Heaven or a God that liveth. b 1 will bring againſt thee a great Army, that ſhall be likea {warm of Caterpillars and {hall come againſt thee in ſuch numbers as Caterpillars uſe to come, and for the ſame end, to eat thee up, and deſtroy thee, and +c Soldiers uſe todo when they go on to fight their Enemtes, or -0 aſſault Cit ies, they ſhall make a great ſhout againſt thee.
15 * He hath made the earth by his power, he hath eſtabliſhed the world by his wiſdom, and hath * ſtretched out the heaven by his underſtanding.
:16 Whea he uttereth his voice there is a || multi- b. ©. *.:n1de of waters in the heavens, and he * cauſeth the
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lr5 7 Kg -- vapours to aſcend from the ends ofthe earth, he ma Por. riſe. cth lightnings with the rain, and bringerh forth the © #plal. windout of histreaſures. _ | m5: 7: 17 * Every Man || is brutiſh by his knowledge, e- #5 very founderis confounded by thegraven Image : tor Gor; his molcen image # falſhood, and rhere 75 no breath "vre brutiſh chem. : . 8h2n 19 18 They re vanity, the work of errors: 1a the, a time of their viſitation they ſhall periſh. WE 19 * Theportion of Jacob 7i5 not like them, for he | Bic. Is the formerof all things, and I/racl1s the rod of his TOE inheritance: the LORD of hoſts zs his name 4. MINE 4 We had thele five Verles all in the tenth Chapter, Ver. 12, Wo OED 13, 143 15, 16. See there the explication of the (evecal paſſages Ee in them, the ſcope of which is only to convince thoſe to whom . oY the Prophet ſpoke, that notwithſtanding all the Power and Riches | and Greatneſs, and Alliances of the Chaldeans, yet that God who had threatned this ruine to them was able to bring it upon them, and all their Idols were vanities, things of nought that ſhould nor | be able to prote& them, and from whoſe power and impotency, | they muſt not mealure or make up a Judgmenc of what God was TW: able & do, for I{rae!'s God was that God who made the World, ; and the Lord of all the Armies of che Creatures whether 1n Hea- yen or Earth, , - + Chap. 20 * Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war ” $0.2; for|| with thee will I break in pieces the nations,and
with thee will I deſtroy kingdoms e.
2 Interpreters are here divided, whether by thou or thee in this and the following Verſes, to underſtand Cyrus whom God made vle of to deſtroy Babylon, and many. other places, or Babylon. Our Tranſlators underitand it of Cyrus, and therefore {peak of the future Tenſe, will I. The Hebrew Text will not reſolve us; I rather incline to interpret it of Babylon, as indeed the moſt do, and ſo it ſhould be, Thou haſt been, and art, for that 1s the ence, Cyrus and Darius were not yet in being. God had made uſe of Bzby! on like an Hammer or Battle-Axe, to break many nations in Pieces. |
21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horſe aud his rider, and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider :
22 With thee alſo will I break in pieces man and woman, and with thee will I break in pieces old and young, and with thee willI break in pieces the young man and the maid.
23 Iwillalſo break in pieces with thee the ſhep- herd, and his flock, and with thee will I break in pieces the hushandman, and his yoke of oxen, and with thee will I break in pieces captains and ru- Iers f. |
fThe ſence of all theſe three Verſes is the ſame, viz. That God hath made uſe, and was ſtill making uſe -of the Babylonizns to waſte and to deſtroy many Nations, to ſpoil and impoveriſhmuch
People, waſting their Goods, routing their Armies, killing all forts of their Inhabitants,
24 And Iwill reader unto Babylon, and toall the inbabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion, in your ſight, ſaith the LORDg.
g The particle in the front of this Verſe which our Tranſla- tors ( underſtanding the four former Verſes of Cyr)rendred and 11 a copulative fence, mult be rendred »ow or bur, if the four former Verſes muſt be underſtood of Babylon, and the ſence is. Tho't nave hitherto made uſe of Babylon, and ſhall yet for a time make ule of the Chaldeans and Bubylonians to deſtroy ſeveral 0+ ther Nations, yt now the time is come, that I will puniſh them,
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